Eileen Day McKusick - Electric Body, Electric Health: Using the Electromagnetism Within (and Around) You to Rewire, Recharge, and Raise Your Voltage

On the winter solstice in December of 2009, my son Quinn came to the dinner table and asked my husband and me if we knew that there was a fourth state of matter called plasmathe electrically charged gas that makes up as much as 99.99 percent of space, connecting stars, planets, and entire galaxies in vast webs of light. Up until that point, I had learned about only three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. How had I missed an entire state of matter? Especially one that, as I would learn, was actually everywhere I looked. That simple question led me down a rabbit hole of discovery, consequently changing the course of my research, work, and entire cosmological worldview.

At that time, I was twenty pounds overweight; broke; deep in debt; suffering with chronic back pain, miserable digestion, acne, an entire colony of plantar warts on my feet, and a stormy marriage; and juggling work, parenting, and being a full-time, first-time college student simultaneously. This theme of struggle on every front had remained entrenched since I first began my journey into health and human potential at age eighteen, and despite decades of reading great piles of self-help books and attending workshops and availing myself of many different forms of healing, I had yet to become fit, abundant, and content. Not even close.

Discovering plasma opened up the door to a whole new worlda world of light and connection, rather than the dark and disconnected, mechanical worldview I had been educated into. It also dovetailed perfectly and synchronistically with the questions I was studying at that time in my masters program and seeking to answer through academic and scientific channels. After spending the previous fifteen years as a sound therapist and independent researcher exploring how the pure coherent tones produced by tuning forks impacted human health and well-being, I had made many inexplicable observations that I was hoping a deep dive into the world of science would shine some light on.

And shine it did! This sudden illumination of the fundamental electrical aspect of our bodies and our electrical connection to the world around us, which I will spell out in this book, revealed the big picture that I had been searching for. It connected the dots of all my previous explorations of sound and vibration, science and spirituality, health and human potential. Once I was able to take it all in, I realized that this recognition of the connected light in all thingsfrom a scientific perspective and not just a spiritual or religious onewas what I had been looking for all along. I had seen the light in a way that satisfied both my rational mind and my soul, and my seeking days were over.

Shortly after spending months learning everything I could about plasma (I actually turned it into an independent study for my masters degree), I began to teach the sound therapy method I had developed to my first group of students. Back in 1996, I had introduced a set of tuning forks for healing into my then part-time massage therapy practice. Through curiosity and exploration, I somewhat accidentally discovered a unique therapeutic approach, now called Biofield Tuning: a simple, noninvasive, and efficient method that uses tuning forks on and around the body, effectively tuning out-of-tune bodies. Through the use of the coherent sound input of the tuning forks, I had stumbled upon an elegant way to release energetic blockages, thereby producing profound and powerful outcomes on the physical, mental, and emotional levels. After almost fifteen years of using this method on clients and watching them grow lighter and brighter and healthier as a result of the work, with my new students, I finally had the opportunity to receive sessions myself.

Almost instantly, my ailments began to heal from receiving tune-ups. The plantar warts were among the first to go. My frozen energy started to find its way back into circulation, my own inner voltage began to rise, and I slowly but surely began to solve all the problems I had been confounded by. Now that I had this new awareness, this new force of nature to use as a resource, things started shifting in a powerful way. It was as if my expanding inner light illuminated the world around me, allowing me to perceive solutions and make connections that I had previously been unable to notice.

Those two seemingly disconnected eventsdiscovering the electrical nature of life and beginning to train students in the sound healing method Id been practicing for so many yearsconverged to cause a sea change in my life. Through the process of learning a new cosmological story of light and connection, and through receiving tunings from my new students, my perspective on health, life, and the universe as a whole widened to a degree that I never knew possible. I began recognizing other potentialities of thought, feeling, and action that I had previously not even considered, which led to new and effective outcomes rather than the same old circles I had been stuck in.

While I have made use of tuning forks and the practice of Biofield Tuning to get my energetic house in order, I dont want this to be one of those books that is a sales pitch for classes and tools and whatnot (although I do have plenty of those things to supply to you should you desire to make use of them). What I have learned the most from this journey is how to use my own mindwhich is to say, my own biofieldmore clearly, more efficiently, and more healthfully. Your energy field is a map of your mind, and fundamentally, your mind is the most powerful tool you have. I will provide you with plenty of tips and practices to get your mind in better order, as well as to make your energy stronger, lighter, brighter, and more resilient. In turn, your body will follow.

Essentially, I have unwittingly figured out a hack in the game of life that, when understood and applied, makes it far easier to boost your health, inner and outer wealth, and creative ability. It has two primary components: understanding electricity and working with our emotions. Our emotions and feelings are just electromagnetic waves that naturally pass through our beings like waves in the oceanunless, that is, we deny, suppress, or repress them, in which case they become frozen and stuck in our bodies and biomagnetic fields and create resistance and static that block the healthy flow of energy. We make our electric bodies stronger and more coherent primarily through effective emotional management (and other simple approaches), and in the pages that follow, I will go in depth into both of these topics.

Today, as I write this on the winter solstice of 2019, I am sitting with my feet in the sand on the beach in Negril, Jamaica, across from my husband of twenty-three years, having weathered many storms together. I have morphed back from my middle-age spread to the fit, trim body I had as a teenager, which I keep not through working out or religiously eating clean but from using sound in a clever way and from mastering the practice of what I call moderate hedonism